From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 08:16:53 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: rm now performs run-time test to work around buggy readdir implementations
X-Git-Tag: CPPI-1_12~814
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fbb6084338a4fbbc041faf2e2b171ac7c474c8bd;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

rm now performs run-time test to work around buggy readdir implementations
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5273f4a45a..9a7b12cc2c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -125,6 +125,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
   nice now works on Darwin 7.7.0 in spite of its invalid definition of NZERO.
 
+  `rm -r' can remove all entries in a directory even when it is on a
+  file system for which readdir is buggy and that was not checked by
+  coreutils' old configure-time run-test.
+
   sleep no longer fails when resumed after being suspended on linux-2.6.8.1,
   in spite of that kernel's buggy nanosleep implementation.